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... even the bare order to cast off lines, there was jubilation and mirth. And mirth, in a man like Leyden, meant mischief, according to Jack Barry's ideas. When, after the launch floated away from the bank, the man actually began to sing a cheerful little song about ripe pomegranates and passion flowers, Barry's teeth had all but loosened themselves through sheer ...

— Gold Out of Celebes • Aylward Edward Dingle

... kindling eyes. She loved to see him like this, his confident, flushed face, the enthusiasm in his blue eyes; and the knowledge of his pain pricked her feeling with passion. She bent forward and kissed ...

— Lord of the World • Robert Hugh Benson

... Mayor was in a towering passion. 'Very good, citizen,' he cried. 'Other people also may take fancies—and mine is that thou shalt explain this fancy of thine before the Military Tribunal at Tarascon. ...

— The Christmas Kalends of Provence - And Some Other Provencal Festivals • Thomas A. Janvier

... parohxo. park : parko. parliament : parlamento. parrot : papago. parsley : petroselo. parson : pastro. particular : speciala, aparta. partridge : perdriko. party : (polit.) partio; festeto; aro. pass : pasi, pasigi. passage : trairejo, vojagxo. passion : pasio; manio; kolerego. past : estinta, pasinta. paste : pasto. pastry : pastecxo. pasture : pasxti, pasxtejo. patch : fliki. path : vojeto. pathetic : kortusxa. patience : pacienco. patriot : patrioto. pattern : modelo, desegno. pause : halteti, pauxzi. pave : pavimi. paw : piedego. pawn : garantie ...

— The Esperanto Teacher - A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians • Helen Fryer

... that any man had a right to shed mine; and I began to doubt the motives of my adviser once more, not that they were intentionally bad, but that his was some great mind led astray by enthusiasm or some overpowering passion. ...

— The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner • James Hogg

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